§ Major CAYZERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will state the numbers of temporary employés, male and female, respectively, that have been discharged from Portsmouth Dockyard since the signing of the Armistice; the numbers of temporary employés, male and female, respectively, that are at present employed at the dockyard; the number of ex-Service men previously employed at the dockyard that have been re-engaged; and the number of ex-Service men who, although they were not employed at the dockyard before the War, have been given employment there now?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe numbers are as follows:
Temporary employés discharged since the date of the signing of the Armistice— Men 1,700 Women 1,600 Temporary employés at present employéd in the dockyard—; Men 6,600 Women 240 Ex-Service men previously employed in the dockyard who have resumed their civil employment 1,617 Ex-Service men not employed in the dockyard before the War, but now employed there 4,015